Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Marx 's theory the many different units were willing to unite and contribute their labour to work for the despot because this appeared , not as working for him , but as working for ‘ the higher unity ’ , which , they wrongly believed , was the source of their continued existence . |
| 2 | They want the department to pay for the management and care costs involved in running the homes . |
| 3 | So many barns ended up looking like suburban villas that The Society For The Protection Of Ancient Buildings launched a campaign to fight for the preservation and proper use of these distinctive and historic treasures . |
| 4 | The need to plan for the staffing as well as the financing of the social services does not apply only to the professionals : we can not decide to double our output of houses in order to deal with housing shortages and obsolescence without regard to the manpower resources of the building industry as well as to the availability of suitable architects . |
| 5 | ( There was of course little incentive to plan for the future when work was often obtained on a casual basis and wages were irregular . ) |
| 6 | Second , there is the failure to provide for the fact that disabled older people require higher incomes than non-disabled people . |
| 7 | The three of them were able to use some sessions of family therapy to acknowledge the need to grieve for the past as well as to prepare for the future . |
| 8 | By thus consenting they form one body politic and it is implied in the contract that the majority have the right to conclude for the rest and let me quote for when any number of men have by the consent of every individual made a community they have thereby made that community one body with a power to act as one body which is only by the will and determination of the majority it being necessary to that which is one body to move one way a single body ca n't move in two opposite directions simultaneously . |
| 9 | We have improved the model by including bromine chemistry and refined the treatment of PSCs to allow for the sedimentation and evaporation as described in section 5 of ref. 9 . |
| 10 | The model is clearly unsatisfactory in a number of respects ; for example , the absence of investment , the failure to allow for the fact that the incidence of unemployment is not spread evenly and of its consequent distributional effects , and the assumption that prices are rigid but quantities are perfectly flexible . |
| 11 | In one regrettable case , which I myself witnessed , it had become an established sport in the house for guests to ring for the butler and put to him random questions of the order of , say , who had won the Derby in such and such a year , rather as one might to a Memory Man at the music hall . |
| 12 | He went along to Diana 's breathing classes to prepare for the birth and was there by her side in the private Lindo Wing at St Mary 's Hospital in Paddington when William emerged after sixteen hours of labour . |
| 13 | He delivered a strong attack on Paisley and sent his Minister for Home Affairs to the General Assembly to apologize for the demonstration and to promise that ‘ the Government will take all possible steps to put a recurrence of such indignities to the Head of this great church and his distinguished guests ’ . |
| 14 | Amazingly , he only got the chance to go for the try because Cardiff players over-ruled skipper Mike Hall . |
| 15 | In those circumstances it does not seem to me right to leave open , whether the court has power to do so I 'm doubtful , but in any event it does not seem to me right to leave open a question of whether there should be some damages to provide for the possibility that er Paul may have to leave school , nor do I think that it is a situation in which any contingency award should be made in respect of that . |
| 16 | Members of WACC 's Latin American/Caribbean Regional Association ( WACC-LA/C ) are increasing their efforts to press for the legalisation and development of community radios throughout the region . |
| 17 | It will take some years to complete that process , but that is a necessary price to pay for the flexibility that the legislation gives us . |
| 18 | But that 's a small price to pay for the flexibility and ease of use that the Pocket Ethernet provides . |
| 19 | Surely this is a very reasonable price to pay for the knowledge that if anything falls apart ‘ up there ’ it wo n't be you . |
| 20 | Considered objectively , they were an instrument of torture ; but the discomfort they caused was a small price to pay for the knowledge that Kate had persuaded him to buy them . |
| 21 | When there is insufficient money in the estate of the deceased person to pay for the funeral and if the person arranging the funeral is likely to have a problem meeting the cost then sections 4 and 5 of this factsheet should be read before making any arrangements . |
| 22 | In fact , the judges have only their predecessors to blame for the prohibition or exclusionary rule : they made it up . |
| 23 | In 1891 she moved to Ambleside and started the House of Education to prepare for the teaching and care of children . |
| 24 | Realizing the kicks that many men get out of listening to women mouthing obscenities , he set up a unique telephone service to cater for the need and gave it the name Just Filmz Inc . |
| 25 | The leader , with four-under par was Jim Thorpe , a comparatively unknown black professional , who had made several unsuccessful attempts to qualify for the Championship and was making his first appearance . |
| 26 | It is possible to calculate hypothetical exchange rates to allow for the fact that specific commodities ( say , bread , video cassettes etc. ) are cheaper in country A than country B. Such comparisons of production on the basis of ‘ real income per head ’ , or ‘ purchasing power parity ’ showed the UK in 1985 to have 64.8 per cent of the income of the USA , or 85.6 per cent of the average of six countries shown at Figure 2.2 . |
| 27 | In the eastern Ukraine , many rejected the pretensions of the Rada to speak for the province and sought to promote a workers ’ revolutionary movement as an alternative focus . |
| 28 | The truth is , if we were looking for people to blame for the fact that the once-great club are now Division Three favourites , referee Brian Coddington would come a long way down the list . |
| 29 | The idea that organisms or even whole species adapt in order to survive is a useful explanatory hypothesis to account for the acceptance or rejection of small genetic mutations . |
| 30 | And that means that even the AS/400 is potentially at risk , and can only continue to be a winner if IBM builds in a big discount to compensate for the fact that it is proprietary — yet instead of recognising this vulnerability , with its incredible but consistent short-termism , the company is squeezing AS/400 users until they squeal with its software pricing on the machine . |